The Piety That Lies Between: A Progressive Christian Perspective

"The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love." --Simone Weil

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Is Religious Freedom Really the Issue?

In my last post I considered some legislative attempts to preserve, under the heading of religious freedom, the right of private parties to...

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Religious Freedom vs Freedom to Discriminate: The Case of Mississippi's "Religious Freedom Restoration Act"

In February, the Kansas House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at protecting the "right" of its citizens to discriminate aga...

Friday, April 18, 2014

The Holiest Night

Before the joy of Easter comes the cross. My faith, shaped by the Lutheran tradition, teaches me that it is on the cross that we encounter...

Blog Milestones

This blog has enjoyed two milestones in the past week. First, the previous post, " Slumber Parties in the Shadow of Death: A Holy Week ...

Monday, April 14, 2014

Slumber Parties in the Shadow of Death: A Holy Week Meditation

In the spring after my father’s death, on the night before Easter, my then eight-year-old son announced that he wanted to invite his sister ...

Sunday, April 6, 2014

Anti-Gay Bigotry, Sincere Belief, and Christianity

There's a meme going around on social media that looks like this: A recent Huffington Post article, " The Myth of Christian Dis...

Monday, March 31, 2014

Fred Phelps isn't Dead

Well, I suppose in a technical sense he’s dead. And depending on what you believe, you might suppose his immortal soul lives on in some...

Thursday, March 27, 2014

"Children Need a Father and a Mother": A Reply on Behalf of Androgynous Parents Everywhere

Here’s something I hear a lot: “Children need a father and a mother.” As a man raising two lovely children together with my wife, I find t...

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

E-Book Formats for GOD'S FINAL VICTORY

While there remains no Kindle version of God's Final Victory , and while the American Bloomsbury-Continuum site continues to indi...

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

The Jesus Tea-Strainer, or the Jesus Poisonous-Seed-Strainer? Or Maybe the Jesus Gold-Sifter

Andrew Wilson just posted a piece on the Theology Matters blog , " The Jesus Lens, or the Jesus Tea-Strainer? ", which begins as f...

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About Me

Eric Reitan: Eric, an award-winning scholar and writer, teaches philosophy at Oklahoma State University. His first book, IS GOD A DELUSION? A REPLY TO RELIGION'S CULTURED DESPISERS, was named one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles of 2009. His other books include GOD'S FINAL VICTORY (co-authored with John Kronen) and THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE: SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND THE CHRISTIAN LOVE ETHIC, the science fiction novel, SO EDEN SANK TO GRIEF, and, most recently,TROUBLED PARADISE: LIMITED SALVATION AND THE PROBLEM OF HEAVENLY GRIEF.

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